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[Judd]

I took this picture in Old Town Alexandria of a very colorfully painted garage door at the Torpedo Factory.

[Steve O]

@bobco85 166807 wrote:

Fresh off renovating my YouTube channel, I’ve got a video for a short but obscure trail in Seattle: the SODO Trail.

Big kudos for only a single dumb bollard right at the beginning.

[bobco85]

In getting through my backlog of footage from the DC area, I decided to make a video for the Bethesda Trolley Trail.

While the footage is from early July, you can see a lot of construction and improvements being made to the section along Old Georgetown Rd which was in the process of upgrading from a sidewalk to a wide sidepath (riding on a sidewalk next to 40 mph traffic is not fun). I also made a 1 block deviation from the main trail route because I personally found it safer to cut behind a stretch of buildings to Marinelli Rd to cross Rockville Pike instead of riding on the Nicholson Ln sidewalk that narrows and provides less-than-ideal sight lines for drivers turning right off Rockville Pike.

The trail is also set for expansion farther north to the Twinbrook Metro and should connect to Rockville, but this at least shows the potential.

[video=youtube_share;6ZkLmFb4-BI]https://youtu.be/6ZkLmFb4-BI[/video]

I will probably follow a DC-Seattle-DC-Seattle pattern for my next videos while I work out the rest of my backlog, but I’m happy to have a lot to show!

[Boo Boo]

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[bobco85]

I know it’s not Wednesday, but I’ve got some more sights from the Seattle area to share! I finished a video of a ride along some of the waterways in Seattle in the evening last Friday.

The day had not started out great, as I had my 4th glass-caused flat since moving here while biking to the bike shop to pick up some new pedals (I jumped on the train and bus and let the bike shop fix it). Once everything was taken care of, I was able to spend the late afternoon taking in the autumn sights along the Ship Canal Trail, a new 2-way buffered bike lane connector that’s 1 mile long, and the Elliott Bay Trail which goes along part of the Seattle downtown waterfront.

For those interested, here’s the route that I took: https://www.strava.com/routes/11051454

It was a chill ride for the most part, and I hope that’s reflected in the video. Enjoy!

[video=youtube_share;BtU5Huctyc8]https://youtu.be/BtU5Huctyc8[/video]

[secstate]

The Hawthorne neighborhood sidewalk battle is back! (From today’s commute up Chestnut Street)

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/06/20/this-dc-neighborhood-is-at-war-over-sidewalks/

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[lordofthemark]

@secstate 167306 wrote:

The Hawthorne neighborhood sidewalk battle is back! (From today’s commute up Chestnut Street)

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/06/20/this-dc-neighborhood-is-at-war-over-sidewalks/

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https://www.google.com/maps/@38.980313,-77.0574092,3a,75y,91.35h,69.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqyfjRKB975EDeQY1KCw5Lw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

There appears to be room for a sidewalk without cutting down a single tree. Is either side willing to give up onstreet parking?

[secstate]

@lordofthemark 167310 wrote:

There appears to be room for a sidewalk without cutting down a single tree. Is either side willing to give up onstreet parking?

Are you trying to start a war?? There’s nowhere else to put the cars apart from the garages and driveways!

[bobco85]

@lordofthemark 167310 wrote:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.980313,-77.0574092,3a,75y,91.35h,69.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqyfjRKB975EDeQY1KCw5Lw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

There appears to be room for a sidewalk without cutting down a single tree. Is either side willing to give up onstreet parking?

They don’t necessarily need to build a sidewalk. They could put in a PPL (protected pedestrian lane) which allows for some parking like what was done here in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood for 3 blocks on 8th Ave S: https://goo.gl/maps/uQbn5nDdzWT2
Here’s a pic of it:
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I’m sure it’d be a lot less expensive to build compared to pouring concrete, redoing the gutters, and possible loss of trees.

[secstate]

Threatening to build a protected people lane with reflective flexposts might be just what’s needed to get people to support a nice sidewalk!

[mstone]

@lordofthemark 167310 wrote:

Is either side willing to give up onstreet parking?

Oh, the humanity!

[jrenaut]

So this is what happens, apparently, when you stick your Garmin on the charger overnight and inadvertently start a ride before you go to bed.

Garmin charging while recording by Jon, on Flickr

[jrenaut]

So this is what happens, apparently, when you stick your Garmin on the charger overnight and inadvertently start a ride before you go to bed.

Garmin charging while recording by Jon, on Flickr

[drevil]

Last weekend, I did a totally unique bike event down in Richmond. Organized by some of the mountain bikers down there, 50+ like-minded “techy” riders were split into 12 teams. All teams were given “bingo” cards which had different technical obstacles listed (e.g., ride down a specific set of crazy stairs, ride over huge root ball, etc.) and silly challenges (e.g., “sing a love song to a stranger”, “kiss a passerby”). We had to record all of them to get points for each, then at the end of the day, each team had to make a video compilation of their challenges. The video was shown on the big screen at a party in the evening. Here’s my team’s vid:

[video]https://www.facebook.com/rob.berube/videos/10155824167037418/[/video]

Not a lot of miles, but a whole lotta smiles

[Judd]

@jrenaut 167539 wrote:

So this is what happens, apparently, when you stick your Garmin on the charger overnight and inadvertently start a ride before you go to bed.

Garmin charging while recording by Jon, on Flickr

Maybe you’re a sleep walker. I’m surprised by the amount of GPS wiggle.

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